I honestly don't think there's anything wrong with the voting system. The voting feature on this site is pretty standard, it SHOULD work well and there is nothing wrong with it. I can assure you of that. It's the fact that certain people are misusing it and it's caught on, became etiquette to vote 5 and anything less is an insult.
A small minority of people misuses the voting system and thinks everybody should be giving perfect scores. Those people get offended by a 4 vote and retaliate with tit-for-tat and a few hostile messages, then that sets the tone for the entire site, and before you know it, people are scoring 5s 95% of the time.
That's all there is to it at the end of the day.
I don't think it's a case of readers giving lower votes. After doing a quick count up, I've come to the conclusion that votes lower than 5 are extremely few and far between as a whole on the site.
Of the 30 stories on my homepage there is a combined total of 282 story votes. Those votes are as follows:
Votes of 1 -- 0
Votes of 2 -- 0
Votes of 3 -- 1
Votes of 4 -- 11
Votes of 5 -- 270
It's not a matter of readers voting lower, but more a case of very few people voting lower than a 5.
In my experience, a great way to pick out errors in your writing is to upload it to a Kindle and read it on that. It really works for me. I pick up nearly every error when reading my stories on my Kindle.
Bear in mind that most Kindles will only accept mobi files, so if you're writing on a .doc file, you'll have to convert with an online .doc to mobi file converter beforehand.
If it were me, I would have improved the story content and edited it in the first place.
No, I'm only joking. I'm okay at writing, it's my story content that's shit. I cannot write erotica for the life of me.
I'm writing a story at the moment, and it's 5000 words long and all character development and plot so far. I just can't crack on with a sex scene. I've given up now anyway.
I'm a self-proclaimed T and T man.
'T and T' stands for tits and toes. I'm all about the tits and toes.
For me, sexy is a well pedicured set of piggies that descend in size from the big toe all the way down to the little pinky.
The breasts? Well, I prefer large breasts with big brown teats with a prominent, turgid nipple-head, the sort you can hang your coat on.
It doesn't get any sexier than that for me.
The moderators work extremely hard behind the scenes keeping this place running to its optimum performance, so they could probably do with a little help sometimes in giving out advice to members. Therefore if anybody has any grammar or punctuation related questions, get a thread going and I'll be happy to help.
I can't say I hate tattoos because "hate" is a strong word. I don't think I hate anything, to be honest. Though I can honestly say that I've never felt the need to have ink permanently embedded into my skin.
Here's a tip: If you want to look super-cool, invest in gold jewellery. Not only does it give you a air of class and affluence, it's also a pretty good investment. Even though the price of gold fluctuates, due to inflation you will never lose money on gold in the long-run.
10 years ago, I bought £500 worth of gold jewellery. I had it valued recently and was told it's now worth £1200. A £700 pound profit over 10 years isn't a great deal of money, but it's more than you'll get for a tattoo. In fact, if you went into a pawnbrokers and ask how much your tattoo's worth, the only thing you'll be leaving with is kick up the arse.
